Peter Jones

Chief Technical Officer

Participants will receive a three-month sponsored membership at Alley powered by Verizon Palo Alto. That is access to a dedicated workspace specifically designed to support you and the growth of your ideas.

All in fellowship program

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A fellowship dedicated to providing resources and opportunities to emerging founders of all backgrounds

Workspace

Participants will receive a three-month sponsored membership at Alley powered by Verizon Palo Alto. That is access to a dedicated workspace specifically designed to support you and the growth of your ideas.

Press & Media Exposure

Participants will be interviewed for Alley.com. Additionally, they will have the opportunity to be featured in select content published on partner publications such as Entrepreneur.com and Forbes.com. It is our mission to share your story with our community.

Events & Programming

Our events are designed to help you explore best practices, expand your network, and expose yourself to new opportunities for your business. We have curated programming specifically to help you build your idea and introduce you to industry experts.

Access to Experts

Participants will have direct access to industry experts sourced from our community. Mentors will actively work to provide guidance and support throughout the program.

What our members say

A lot of co-working spaces say that they focus around community and Alley really does deliver on that promise just through the events and through the way that they have other entrepreneurs collaborating with each other.

Meet our Residents

CRISP

Crisp provides instant access to a wide array of the latest tech products for customers to take on trips, have for events, use for work or simply test out. With free shipping and free returns, it's a smart and easy way to do more without the expense of buying.

Sweep

Harness big data analytics to solve your most pressing maintenance issuesMonitor and diagnose equipment in realtime from the comfort of your desk. Through machine learning, we help automate the process of condition and failure monitoring.

HereWe

Finish this sentence: Here we______. That's what we help you do. We're workplace culture partners. We assess and nurture company culture as it stands today, and help evolve it strategically - so people can do more of the right things, faster.Build your company's culture intentionally with HereWe.

Berni

GigaBot5G

GigaBot5G.com focuses on the next generation gigabit internet service, namely 5G. Its main target customers are rural cities where the internet connections are sparse and Fiber Optic are hard to reach or cost prohibitive.

Innovare

Innovare's EDnovation® software and expert support empower education leaders to impact students and communities. Our users are leaders of schools of any type and educational not-for profit organizations. We empower them by giving them the data, strategy and portfolio management tools they need to meet their goals and have a consequential large-scale impact on education and society.

Sulat Kamay Reality

Translated to “writing with your hands” in Tagalog (Filipino language), we are pushing the boundaries for the future of storytelling through cultural preservation and cutting-edge artistic expression by the use of interactive immersive and emerging tech. Through spatial computing (Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality Mixed Reality eXtended Reality or AR VR MR XR) applications and experiences, we hope engage the next generation to learn history, language, and culture with the latest innovative technologies.

Skale

Skale (“skill” + “scale”) strives to make the best education practices in learning and teaching scalable for the first time. We realized that education has traditionally been one-to-many, but many-to-many matching can finally allow individualized and personalized learning. Our product matches peers together to teach each other from a curriculum (via one-on-one guided mobile video calls), thus creating scalable self-teaching communities that become increasingly capable over time.

Tradewith Co

To do you must learn but to learn you must do. That’s the catch-22 of investing. Tradewith’s idea-sharing app makes it easy to do both. Our institution-grade analytics and transparent design makes it easy to identify and learn from real experts.

BlackTies

Personalized intelligent machine learning platform for your organization to improve clients relationship, increase profitability, and maximize employee satisfaction based on your process and under your direction. Software that supports to you without integration.

StepFunction

Birdstop

Birdstop automates battery exchange for commercial drones to keep them in the air perpetually. Our technology sits in suitcase sized ground stations that can be deployed in a network. We currently target use cases around surveillance (mining, agriculture, security) where the drone needs to be in the air for extended periods of time. Our vision is to create the infrastructure backbone for the future aerial vehicle world.

Create & Learn

At Create & Learn, our mission is deliver STEM Learning at the Paceof Innovations. We teach students K-9 latest technologies such as AI and Data Science, help them understand and solve real world challenges, while developing their critical thinking and creativity skills, and have fun!

Aero Systems West

Aero Systems West helps businesses successfully implement and use commercial drones. We offer a first-of-its-kind subscription that includes a professional drone platform, the maintenance services to keep it working, and Accident Protection to ensure that an accident does not affect the ability to serve customers.

Pandia Health

Pandia Health brings birth control to women wherever they have internet and a mailbox. We are building “The Brand Women Trust with their Health.” We are the ONLY women-founded/led, practicing reproductive health doctor founded/led company in the birth control delivery space.

Picolo Labs Inc

Graffe

Graffe is building a tool for automatic data exploration of clinical and pre-clinical trial data. We prioritize the attention of over worked researchers and statisticians on problems in clinical trials so they can spot problems sooner making trials cheaper, faster, and safer.

Idiomatic

Swantide

Sleek

Text to Drink. No downloading apps, no onboarding, no clicks… just text us what you’d like. Order and pay for your drinks at your favorite bar without missing the fun. Text us from anywhere; the dance floor, at a table with your friends, or even the bathroom and you’ll be notified with an ETA and when your drink is ready for pickup. Oh, we also have curated recommendations for you.

Tensil

Brain of the Store

Brain of the Store is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that that leverages existing in-store sensors, cameras, and devices to revolutionize customer experience in brick and mortar stores. In the same way that professional sports have been transformed by spatial AI that analyzes player movement, Brain of the Store will transform retail by enabling retailers to minimize lost sales opportunities and shrink through real-time orchestration of staff and product based on customers' shopping behavior. Powered by a world class technology team with deep experience in retail, Brain of the Store’s cutting edge data science operating in real-time enables a scalable solution to personalize shopper experience across all of a retailer’s stores.

Meet our Mentors

Marah Deininger

Manager

Verizon Ventures

Isaiah Steinfeld

Entrepreneur in Residence

Nike

Marco Casas

Principal

Alumni Ventures Group

Ariba Jahan

Director of Innovation

The Ad Council

Francois de Laigue

Founder

Dotted Square Inc.

Scott Thompson

President /Co-Founder

Foresight CFO & 2% CEO Club

Amanda Villarreal

Business Development

Frog Design

Garvey Chui

Principal Consultant

The Verb Group

Jenna Klebanoff

Marketing Director

Trade

Kristina Serafim

Investment Director

Verizon Ventures

Shuja Keen

Managing Director

Mentors Fund

Spondon Kath Hazarika

Product Manager

Verizon

Katie Klencheski

Founder/Creative Director

SMAKK Studios

Agha Khan

Advisor/Mentor

KPMG

Abhishek Mathur

Director of Engineering

Facebook

Asya Bashina

Marketing Professional

Freelance Marketer

Jan Beranek

Founder/CEO

U+

Teague Hopkins

Sr Manager of Product Management

Capital One

Chris Danek

Marketing Director

Christopher Danek Consulting

Jamshed Dubash

Advisor

Vaspar Strategies

Nader Fathi

Founder/CEO

Kiana.io

Craig O'Sullivan

Consultant

Rokk3r

Kokou Letsou

Data Scientist

Will Computer Services

Tami Mullen

Founder/Community Influencer

Intuitive Group

Hemanth Tammareddi

Blockchain Professional

Zensar/Cisco Systems

Melinda Wang

Strategic Advisor

MW Projects LLC

Omar Al-Alami

FinTech Products & Partnerships

Georgetown University

Sean Bayrakal

Head of Digital Innovation

Wearables

Arik Paran

Senior Professional Services

Workday

Callie Wang

Investor

Digital Horizon

Marah Deininger

Manager

Verizon Ventures

Isaiah Steinfeld

Entrepreneur in Residence

Nike

Isaiah Steinfeld is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Nike inside their Advanced Innovation division: Valiant Labs, focused on exploration around new business opportunities and emerging technologies. He is also actively involved in the tech community serving as a mentor with a handful of early stage venture funds and accelerators.

Marco Casas

Principal

Alumni Ventures Group

Marco brings demonstrated experience in early-stage finance and fundraising. At Alumni Ventures Group, he sources, analyzes, and executes Seed stage investments. At Vostok Emerging Finance, he performed due diligence across the FinTech industry in developing markets. Previously, Marco worked at global investment banks including ICBC and Macquarie, where he helped emerging companies raise over $20 billion in IPOs and secondary transactions. Marco serves as angel investor and advisor to a variety of startups, including size-inclusive clothing brand, Universal Standard.

Ariba Jahan

Director of Innovation

The Ad Council

Francois de Laigue

Founder

Dotted Square Inc.

Francois de Laigue is the co-founder and CEO of Dotted Square, Inc., a blockchain-based payment solutions company. He has over two decades’ experience in the IT space, having worked closely with global corporations like Microsoft, Orange France Telecom, British Telecom, Accenture, Proctor & Gamble, Pulsepoint, and many others to generate billions of dollars in top-line growth.

Scott Thompson

President /Co-Founder

Foresight CFO/The 2% CEO Club

President of Foresight CFO & Co-Founder of The 2% CEO Club.Passion & more passion with a very fast paced mind focused onhigh growth finance. He doesn't seem to be slowing down anytimesoon between startups, global brands, and the investment world.If he is truly excited about something, look out and be ready for acouple "deep dives" - some of you are laughing here.While his background also includes advising and working withpowerhouses like the Big 4, Palantir, Comcast, & Nike, he trulyenjoys lifestyle brands like The Rake, Gentlemans Journal, & asecret favorite: Varnish Lane.Did we mention he's under 40? Although, he swears he has greyhairs in there somewhere.

Amanda Villarreal

Business Development

Frog Design

Garvey Chui

Principal Consultant

The Verb Group

Jenna Klebanoff

Marketing Director

Trade

Jenna Klebanoff is the Marketing Director, CRM & Consumer Insights at Trade. She spends her time learning as much as possible about the customers in order to deliver the best experiences for them and maximizing customer value.Jenna's past experiences at startups such as Casper and Tough Mudder, and larger companies including Time Inc., NBCUniversal, and General Electric helped to shape her customer-first mentality. With a history of working across marketing, growth, as well as finance organizations, she brings a mix of creative and strategic growth ideas while maintaining an analytical rigor.Outside of work Jenna enjoys traveling, exploring new fitness and wellness opportunities, and checking out new restaurants in NYC with her friends and husband.

Kristina Serafim

Investment Director

Verizon Ventures

Shuja Keen

Managing Director

Mentors Fund

Spondon Hazarika

Product Manager

Verizon

Spondon is a Product Manager at Verizon's Innovation center. He focuses on creating, validating and launching new product ideas and innovations across a mixture of B2C, B2B and internal products. His experience includes FinTech products, messaging clients, cloud products and networking optimization products. He has helped with creating business models, designing products, running trials and gathering customer feedback to validate product feasibility.He's excited to provide mentorship and perspective to early stage startups in validating product market fit and designing a sustainable, scalable, long-term business.

Katie Klencheski

Founder/Creative Director

SMAKK

I'm on a mission to change consumer behavior towards purchasing decisions that are better for people and planet. As the founder SMAKK — a branding and growth studio — I use my passion, creativity, and experience to help values led clients build world changing brands.I began my career in advertising working with global brands (Sony, Trump, American Express, Cartier and more), but felt a pull to bring that knowledge to companies and organizations working to make a world that is more sustainable, thoughtful, and socially conscious.

Abhishek Mathur

Director of Engineering

Facebook

Asya Bashina

Marketing Professional

Freelance Marketer

Asya is growth marketer and business developer by trade and a Women in Tech advocate outside of work! Asya has help multiple marketing roles with increasing responsibility at both large and small B2B companies such as SolidWorks, Neurala, productboard and GrokStyle (acquired by Facebook). Asya also has a passion for VC investing and is currently a fellow at Triphammer Ventures at Alumni Venture Group, prior to that she was an Associate at Red Bear Angels. In her spare time, Asya has found many ways to engage and promote Diversity in Tech through her blog series at SolidWorks, a Women in STEM Lean In Circle and Chapter she started, and most recently, a podcast series called "Mind the Gap Radio", a series focused on promoting the stories of different people from diverse backgrounds (LGBTQA+, women, minorities) and the stories of what inspired them to work in tech and business. Feel free to connect with Asya on LinkedIn or Twitter.

Jan Beranek

CEO/Founder

U+

CEO & Founder of U+_ (https://u.plus ), U+Ventures, Google Launchpad and ESA mentor. Helped build over 60 products in the past 5 years with total valuation over $1b.

Teague Hopkins

Sr Manager of Product Management

Capital One

I build teams and I build products. After starting my career in tech, I’ve spent the last decade leading cross-functional teams to develop new products from ideation through launch. I’m an advocate for the lean startup methodology and a mentor for entrepreneurs at several accelerator programs.

Chris Danek

Marketing Director

Christopher Danek Consulting

Jamshed Dubash

Advisor

Vaspar Strategies

Nader Fathi

Founder/CEO

Kiana.io

Nader Fathi is a serial entrepreneur and veteran of the Big Data and IoT industry. He is currently the CEO of Kiana Analytics, a Big Data company that helps brick-and-mortar businesses to strengthen on-site security and understand visitor behavior. He was CEO of SigmaQuest, a Big Data for Supply Chain solution, which he co-founded in 2002. Camstar Systems successfully acquired SigmaQuest in 2010 and Nader lead its Supply Chain Quality practice until 2012. Nader mentors and advises startups as the Executive-in-Residence (EIR) at the University of Southern California Stevens Institute for Innovations and the Plug and Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley.

Craig O'Sullivan

Consultant

Rokk3r

Kokou Letsou

Data Scientist

Will Computer Services

Tami Mullen

Founder/Community Influencer

Intuitive Group

Passionate about arming small businesses with accessible business resources, Tami Mullen serves as the Principal and Sr. Consultant for the Intuitive Group, a woman-owned government consulting firm that helps businesses identify, qualify, position and pursue government contracts. With over 20 years of business development expertise, Ms. Mullen has spent her career helping both large and small businesses expand their reach and footprint with desired customers for both the public and private sector. Her team's niche experience has afforded them the opportunity of securing over $420 million in government contracts for clients. She is a proud graduate of Hampton University and mother of 3 beautiful boys.

Hemanth Tammareddi

Blockchain Professional

Zensar/Cisco Systems

A program manager at work and a software engineer at heart who loves tinkering with new technology and products. I enjoy building creative solutions for frustrating problems with others.While not working i spend time travelling and exploring new foodie places.

Melinda Wang

Strategic Advisor

MW Projects LLC

Strategic Advisor, Angel Investor, Cultural Producer, Deal LawyerMelinda Wang is a strategic advisor to startups in the fintech, blockchain-based technology, legaltech, consumer internet, VR/AR, mediatech, SaaS and private social networking spaces, and is an active angel investor. She is part of Pipeline Angels, a women investors network focused on social impact businesses, and a member of the steering committee for Princeton Alumni Angels. She is also the Founder and Principal of MW Projects, a cultural production and art advisory firm dedicated to bringing contemporary art to historic sites, non-traditional venues and liminal spaces

Omar Al-Alami

FinTech Products & Partnerships

Georgetown University

A multi-disciplinary banker delivering structured FinTech solutions to payments, savings and lending to drive innovation and inclusion, Omar has worked across multiple regions on international payment corridors, domestic savings programs and risk-reducing lending solutions. Omar is a banker & product manager, with applied research into the strategies of global payments companies and digital lenders. His specialties include long-term strategies, FinTech partnerships, business line creation and international expansion. He has mentored high school students, college students and entrepreneurs in launching or growing their startups.

Sean Bayrakal

Head of Digital Innovation

Wearables

New ventures and innovation executive focused on business model disruption and digital branded experiences. Focused on creating next level wearables in a connected universe.

Arik Paran

Senior Professional Services

Workday

Callie Wang

Investor

DHVC

Investor @DHVCSector of Interest: Consumer Tech, Blockchain

Meet our Partners

Verizon

Verizon delivers the promise of the digital world to our customers. We make their innovative lifestyles possible. We do it all through the most reliable network and the latest technology. Our incubator of new products and services will help bring the future to our customers. We’re using our network to make breakthroughs in interactive entertainment, digital media, the Internet of Things and broadband services. And with the addition of Yahoo in June 2017, our content, advertising and cross-platform media capabilities are stronger than ever.

Xoogler

A group of Google alumni and current Googlers who have come together to help each other advance our ambitions in the startup ecosystem. The Xoogler.co community consists of startup founders, early team members, angel investors, VCs, and mentors.

The Hive

The Hive is a studio that incubates, funds and launches businesses that use large volumes of data for intelligent decision making. The Hive’s startups create applications that leverage data with one or many of the following characteristics: - Combining First Party, 3rd Party & Public Data - From different sources (unstructured/ structured, streaming/stored) - Volume of data - New scale-out processing & storage infrastructures - Use of Search & Machine Learning Approaches

MIT Club of Northern California

The MIT Club of Northern California (MITCNC) is the regional alumni club of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Northern California. The club is run entirely by volunteer MIT alumni. Along with its partners, the club organizes approximately one hundred events every year, serving over 12,000 alumni in the Northern California area.

Techstars

Techstars helps entrepreneurs succeed. Through the Techstars Worldwide Entrepreneur Network, founders and their teams connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners who will help their companies grow.

Verizon Ventures

Combining smart capital with access to Verizon's ecosystem and strategic roadmap, Verizon Ventures is the valuable bridge connecting innovators with pathways that advance their businesses in growing and impactful sectors.

Sitetracker

The Club

The CLUB is a leadership incubator for San Francisco Bay Area women who want to accelerate their careers. We are a tight-knit community. We know, and help, each other in our individual leadership development. Collectively we grow talent through high-impact programs, networking and support.

Lightspeed

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that is engaged in the consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It is focused in seed, early stage, later stage, expansion stage, start-up, growth companies, and incubation and has specialized in debt financing for start-up and growth companies.

Consulate of Canada

The Pifany

The Pifany is a space dedicated to propelling mothers forward in both career and life. We are a company by mothers for mothers, and we believe deeply in the benefits of collective wisdom. Our goal is to provide a beautiful, safe and inviting workspace where each of our members can thrive. In this space, we work, create, mentor, celebrate triumphs, overcome setbacks, develop business ideas and always, pay it forward.

Fashion Incubator San Francisco

The mission of Fashion Incubator San Francisco (FiSF), a non-profit 501c3 Corporation, is to accelerate emerging apparel and accessories design businesses while supporting fashion industry economic growth and job creation in the San Francisco Bay Area.

MomWarrior

MomWarrior is a burning platform: bringing together influencers, leaders, and change-makers to share ideas, stories, and thought-leadership to tackle the issues around the modern mother. We spark change through open dialogue around challenges that are top of mind: the maternal wall, motherhood bias, child penalty, parental policies and programs, identity after parenthood, ambition, purpose, and work/life integration, to name a few.

Lean Startup Co

By making entrepreneurship a core function of every organization, we can solve some of the world’s biggest problems. We teach organizations everywhere — regardless of size, sector or age — how to innovate in a fast-changing world and build products that matter. We do this by offering live events, an education program, and a library of online media resources.

CRV Ventures

CRV has been a leading investor in early-stage technology companies for almost half a century. The firm has backed nearly 400 startups in its 47-year history, including foundational companies like Twitter, Zendesk, Amgen, Hubspot, Parametric Technologies, Yammer, EqualLogic and Sonus Networks. Half of the companies CRV has backed have gone public or been acquired. The firm focuses on enterprise, consumer and deep insight bioengineering.

Stanford University

The Stanford Entrepreneurship Network (SEN) is a working group of university programs and student groups offering opportunities for the Stanford community to learn and explore various aspects of entrepreneurship. Stanford’s entrepreneurial ecosystem is rich and diverse, with deep ties to Silicon Valley and regions around the world. As such, our university’s entrepreneurial activity is decentralized, flourishing through the work of students, faculty, and staff engaged in events and initiatives for the Stanford community. We invite you to learn about our member organizations below.

Become a mentor

The opportunity to engage was a fun and refreshing experience. It's rare to get the chance to help a group of passionate entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses that will keep their creative vision in the market going forward.